Eros in Sanskrit is a collection of lyrics and meditations on love written over the last thirty years. “A word slinger with unstoppable chops, a spewer of jewels with the baddest ear in the hemisphere,” Kirpal Gordon playfully unites the prose poem to the swinging rhythms of jazz and the montage technique of modern fiction.

Widely published and anthologized, these lines cover a range of territories geographical and historical, musical and metaphysical. Gordon weaves a range of themes — from personal identity, loss, language and beauty to social injustice and the pulse of the street — into a larger participation in the transformative magic of human love.

The book’s companion CD, Speak-Spake-Spoke, delivers eleven of these lyrical gems wed to the American songbook and performed by Gordon and the exuberant Claire Daly Band, also available from LDP Media, where music is sold. (Buy the CD Speak-Spake-Spoke from CD Baby, Amazon, or iTunes.)

Press Release: “LDP Media and Leaping Dog Press Release Companion Book and Jazz / Spoken Word CD by Kirpal Gordon, ‘Poet Laureate of Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in Jazz in Lincoln Center’”

Reader’s Guide: “A Reader’s Guide to Eros In Sanskrit”

Press Kit: “Kirpal Gordon’s Eros In Sanskrit (Book) and Speak-Spake-Spoke (CD)”

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